Last week I spent a lot of time thinking about the Republican vice presidential candidate--and her stylists. My piece for The End of the Dial, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Hair" (mp3), got picked up by Magnum Photos for their series InSight America, "a collage of personal investigations and reflections that attempts to capture the things preoccupying Americans during the weeks leading to Election Day." Their photographers were at the Medusa Salon last week as well: Check out the cool images here.

As we were editing "What We Talk About ...", the news broke that the RNC  had spent $150,000 to outfit and accessorize Palin and her family. Slate magazine sent me to Saks Fifth Avenue that afternoon to see if I could figure out how, exactly, one spends that much money on clothes. The results of my experiment are here. The next day, I launched my pundit career with brief appearances on NPR's "Day to Day" and washingtonpost.com.

 I'll leave you with my favorite piece of tape from Medusa, which didn't make it into the final piece. Here's my interview with Brynn (mp3), a 9-year-old from Park Slope, Brooklyn. She's pretty darn exciting.

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